Re: German+Hungarian question

Carsten Becker skrev:
> On Sat 03 September 2005, 12:59 CEST, Ingmar Roerdinkholder
> wrote
>
>  > Btw how do Magyars do that in Hungarian unfriendly
>  > environments? Because
>  > they have two kinds of umlauts for u and o: ü and ö, and u
>  > and o with ",
>  > large umlaut accents, like a double accent aigu, for long
>  > [2:] and [y:].
>  > For ö and ü, oe and ue can be used, but what for the long
>  > umlauts?
>  > oee and uee? ooe and uue?
>
> I don't know how the Hungarian solve the problems with their
> umlauts. In Scandinavian countries, it's common to leave
> them out in internet addresses, btw. The French also leave
> out their accents when they're not available.
>
> By saying this:
>
>  >>> If you want to have it without the dots, it's
>  >>> _Peenemuende_, since ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue and ß=ss in German
>  >>> unfriendly environments.
>
> I rather referred to German, since here the habit is to
> write vowel+e for umlauted letters.
I for one find the Swedish practice deplorable.  The Danes
use _ae oe aa_ for _æ ø å_ in internet addresses, but I guess
it comes more natural to them, since _æ_ looks like _ae_
anyway and they still write _å_ as _aa_ in some names.

When I entered the internet all-ASCII was still more common,
and many Swedes blandly assumed that my surname was Jönsson
rather than Jonsson, just because that's the more common form;
hence my use of just my initials in my email address.

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